By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Soil analytics company CropX has forged a strategic partnership with NASA Harvest – NASA’s Food Security and Agriculture Program housed within the NASA Applied Sciences Program – to collaborate on global agricultural monitoring, and to provide NASA with unprecedented insights into soil health. First introduced through their involvement in […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Roslin Technologies, the Edinburgh-based agtech specialist and close tie-in to the Roslin Institute, the creator of Dolly the first cloned sheep, announced it is launching a bid to raise £50 million (US$62.9 million) through a second funding round. In 2017 the startup made history when it raised £10 (US$12.5 […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media China Food Tech Hub – a new consortium model organized by Bits x Bites to foster cooperation between startups and global leaders – continues to grow with the addition of three high-profile members: Nestle, Ajinomoto, and Italian pasta giant Barilla’s Blu1877, a hybrid venture capital fund and innovation hub. […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media Plant-based food leader Danone North America announced its partnership with AI-driven biosciences company Brightseed with the goal of unlocking so-far unknown health and nutrition benefits of key plant sources. Reflective of a new era in precision nutrition, San-Francisco-based Brightseed is the developer of the world’s first AI platform designed […]
By Lynda Kiernan, Global AgInvesting Media As World Bee Day is May 20, ApisProtect, an Irish agtech startup working to save the world’s bee population, announced it has joined the Microsoft for Startup program, forging a strategic partnership that will allow ApisProtect to use Microsoft technologies to scale its business over the course of the coming […]
By Lynda Kiernan Bayer has opened a $100 million state-of-the-art corn breeding greenhouse facility in Marana, Arizona. The unique site will be crop-specific, serving as a global product design center for corn. It will bring the breeding process indoors in order to accelerate the development of innovative and sustainable seed products and agricultural solutions through […]
By Lynda Kiernan Response Biotech has merged with Koch Biological Solutions to create Plant Response™ Biotech, Inc., a new venture that will focus on the innate immunity of plants, plant physiology, and nutrient use efficiency. Founded in March 2008, PlantResponse™ began as a spin-out from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). Over the past 10-plus […]
By Lynda Kiernan Sweden-based Lantmännen and Norway-based Yara are partnering to transform the food supply chain, with a pilot project targeting the launch of the world’s first certified fossil-free food chain. Lantmännen is one of the leading agricultural cooperatives in Northern Europe. Owned by 25,000 of Sweden’s farmers, operations in more than 20 countries, and […]
By Lynda Kiernan Bits x Bites, the first food-focused VC fund and accelerator launched in China, has partnered with a multinational consortium of ag, biotech, processor, and food giants to launch the China Food Tech Hub, a new model to foster cooperation between startups and global leaders in the space. The consortium backing […]
AGCO Corporation, one of the world’s top manufacturers and distributors of agricultural solutions, equipment, and related services, announced a commercial and technological partnership with Brazil’s Solinftec, a digital agtech provider of actionable insights to farmers through the Internet of Things (IoT), satellite, mobile, data processing, and AI data science. “We are humbled and thrilled by the […]
